Registration Open for 2011 St. Jude Marathon Weekend -Become a St. Jude Hero; $3 million raised last year in support of the lifesaving research and treatment conducted at St. Jude

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Registration is now open for the 2011 St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend races to be held Saturday, December 3, 2011.

Participants can register online at www.stjudemarathon.org for any of the four races: St. Jude Memphis Marathon, St. Jude Memphis Half Marathon, the Memphis Grizzlies House 5K and the St. Jude Memphis Family Race and Kids Marathon.

Visit www.stjudemarathon.org for the full slate of race fees and schedule price increases.

Participants can make their race experience even more meaningful by becoming a St. Jude Hero. This special community of runners and walkers not only commit to the challenge of completing an endurance race; they commit to helping the kids of St. Jude in their fight for life by fundraising for the hospital as they train.

To help St. Jude Heroes raise money, fundraising tools including a personalized webpage are provided. St. Jude Heroes race to cross the finish line but the patients of St. Jude are the true winners. Last year, more than 4,000 St. Jude Heroes raised $3 million in support of the lifesaving research and treatment conducted at St. Jude.

The St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend is one of the few major marathons in the country to benefit a single charity. The St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend, presented by Juice Plus+®, is a collaborative effort between St. Jude and the Memphis Runners Track Club.

To learn more, visit www.stjudemarathon.org